Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring your papers into court in an expensive brief case; bring them in an ordinary paper wrapping. . . . Try to get a seat at a table near the jury and let the jury see what you are doing. . . . Lean on the table and look the jury in the eye. . . . Use the same language that the juryman would use in telling your story to his wife and children...
Four years ago the leaders of the British Labor Party called upon Mr. Fyfe, asked him to do what he could with the then puny Laborite Daily Herald. His success in making that paper the outstanding Labor organ and one of the largest newspapers of Britain has been too often touted to need recapitulation...
...hangman and a swindler!" shouted the mob-composed exclusively of members of Herr Roll's association. "Pay us! Pay us, Schacht! We want 1,000 gold marks for every one of these!" They waved their now worthless pre-War 1,000 paper mark notes. Eventually police reserves arrived, quelled the disorder, made possible the continuance of Dr. Schacht's libel suit...
Five Trillions. Whirring, chomping post-War money presses inflated the Hungarian banknote circulation to a stupendous total: five trillion korona. Peasants with a comfortable pre-War nest egg of 14,000 paper korona ($2,800) discovered that they possessed the equivalent of about $20 when the korona was at last stabilized by the able U. S. fiscal administrator of Hungary, Jeremiah Smith (TIME, July 5 et ante...
...paper underwear and three woolen sweaters; in paper socks with fleece-lined boots; with four pairs of mittens-paper, silk, wool, fleeced leather-and wool-edged goggles to keep his eyeballs from freezing, Pilot Jean Callizo climbed up and up from Le Bourget airdrome, near Paris, in his specially fitted altitude plane. It was late afternoon, with a high ceiling (cloud level). Picking a hole at 2,000 metres (about 6,600 ft.) Pilot Callizo steered up for "the edge of heaven." Beyond the clouds was fair weather...